Nicola Di Stefano
Biographic Data
| ID | 7523329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Di Stefano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Stefano |
| SIGNATURE | DI STEFANO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9286-0395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What role does temporal synchrony play in mid-level audiovisual crossmodal correspondences
Temporal synchrony is widely recognized as one of the key factors facilitating the emergence of crossmodal correspondences and affecting their crossmodal effects. However, several issues regarding the definition of temporal synchrony and the mechanisms underlying its crossmodal effects remain open, depending on the specific experimental/perceptual context/stimuli used, as well as the influence of crossmodal congruency and structural (including is…
Auditory-conceptual associations in Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals
This study investigated auditory-conceptual associations in children using complex audiovisual stimuli, namely musical excerpts from the Western classical repertoire and drawings. In Experiment 1, we examined whether 6- to 9-year old children were able to consistently match musical excerpts from Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with corresponding black-and-white images of the characters. The results confirmed robust associations, particularly for t…
Affordance-based accounts of the ethics of artefacts and their application to neuroenhancement technologies
Over the recent decade, various approaches have been suggested to reflect on the ethics of technologies for human augmentation. Some researchers focused on the impact of these technologies on individuals, delving into aspects such as psychological and bodily identity, responsibility, and autonomy. Others took a social stance, emphasizing the potential effects of widespread augmentation devices on fundamental moral principles like social justice a…
On sensory similarities
Similarity has been a central concern for millennia, drawing the attention of philosophers, scientists, and artists. The issue of similarity is especially intriguing in the domain of the senses (and of sensory perception), where considerable research effort has been devoted to describing the affinities and divergences between different sensory modalities. In this work, we critically review the multiple different ways in which 'sensory similarity'…
"Richard Parncutt's "Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality”
No abstract available
Smelling x as y? On (the impossibility of) multistable perception in the chemical senses
Multistable percepts are intriguing phenomena whereby an ambiguous sensory input can be perceived in one of several qualitatively different ways. In such cases, people can switch their attention to perceive the stimulus in either way, though they typically cannot maintain both interpretations in awareness simultaneously. The abundance of evidence demonstrating multistable perception in the visual and auditory modalities can be contrasted with the…
Perceptual Similarity
Perceptual similarity is one of the most fiercely debated topics in the philosophy and psychology of perception. The documented history of the issue spans all the way from Plato – who regarded similarity as a key factor for human perceptual experience and cognition – through to contemporary psychologists – who have tried to determine whether, and if so, how similarity relationships can be established between stimuli both within and across the sen…
Prokofiev was (almost) right
Over recent decades, studies investigating cross-modal correspondences have documented the existence of a wide range of consistent cross-modal associations between simple auditory and visual stimuli or dimensions (e.g., pitch-lightness). Far fewer studies have investigated the association between complex and realistic auditory stimuli and visually presented concepts (e.g., musical excerpts-animals). Surprisingly, however, there is little evidence…
What, if anything, can be considered an amodal sensory dimension
The term ‘amodal’ is a key topic in several different research fields across experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including in the areas of developmental and perception science. However, despite being regularly used in the literature, the term means something different to the researchers working in the different contexts. Many developmental scientists conceive of the term as referring to those perceptual qualities, such as, for exa…
Sensory translation between audition and vision
Across the millennia, and across a range of disciplines, there has been a widespread desire to connect, or translate between, the senses in a manner that is meaningful, rather than arbitrary. Early examples were often inspired by the vivid, yet mostly idiosyncratic, crossmodal matches expressed by synaesthetes, often exploited for aesthetic purposes by writers, artists, and composers. A separate approach comes from those academic commentators who…
Cultural Accounts of Consonance Perception. A Lakatosian Approach to Save Pythagoras
In 1945, Norman Cazden published a groundbreaking article in the literature on consonance perception. In this seminal work, Cazden combined historical, musicological, and theoretical arguments to assert that the Pythagorean approach to consonance, based on integer ratios, lacked substantiation. Recent empirical evidence has bolstered Cazden’s perspective, indicating that the perception of consonance is primarily shaped by culture rather than by a…
Artificial Emotions
Olfaction
The Ethics of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. An Enactivist Approach
Supernumerary robotic limbs are innovative devices in the field of wearable robotics which can provide humans with unprecedented sensorimotor abilities. However, scholars have raised awareness of the ethical issues that would arise from the large adoption of technologies for human augmentation in society. Most negative attitudes towards such technologies seem to rely on an allegedly clear distinction between therapy and enhancement in the use of …
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Olfaction
The Ethics of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. An Enactivist Approach
Supernumerary robotic limbs are innovative devices in the field of wearable robotics which can provide humans with unprecedented sensorimotor abilities. However, scholars have raised awareness of the ethical issues that would arise from the large adoption of technologies for human augmentation in society. Most negative attitudes towards such technologies seem to rely on an allegedly clear distinction between therapy and enhancement in the use of …
Artificial Emotions
Perceptual Similarity
Perceptual similarity is one of the most fiercely debated topics in the philosophy and psychology of perception. The documented history of the issue spans all the way from Plato – who regarded similarity as a key factor for human perceptual experience and cognition – through to contemporary psychologists – who have tried to determine whether, and if so, how similarity relationships can be established between stimuli both within and across the sen…
Prokofiev was (almost) right
Over recent decades, studies investigating cross-modal correspondences have documented the existence of a wide range of consistent cross-modal associations between simple auditory and visual stimuli or dimensions (e.g., pitch-lightness). Far fewer studies have investigated the association between complex and realistic auditory stimuli and visually presented concepts (e.g., musical excerpts-animals). Surprisingly, however, there is little evidence…
What, if anything, can be considered an amodal sensory dimension
The term ‘amodal’ is a key topic in several different research fields across experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including in the areas of developmental and perception science. However, despite being regularly used in the literature, the term means something different to the researchers working in the different contexts. Many developmental scientists conceive of the term as referring to those perceptual qualities, such as, for exa…
Sensory translation between audition and vision
Across the millennia, and across a range of disciplines, there has been a widespread desire to connect, or translate between, the senses in a manner that is meaningful, rather than arbitrary. Early examples were often inspired by the vivid, yet mostly idiosyncratic, crossmodal matches expressed by synaesthetes, often exploited for aesthetic purposes by writers, artists, and composers. A separate approach comes from those academic commentators who…
Cultural Accounts of Consonance Perception. A Lakatosian Approach to Save Pythagoras
In 1945, Norman Cazden published a groundbreaking article in the literature on consonance perception. In this seminal work, Cazden combined historical, musicological, and theoretical arguments to assert that the Pythagorean approach to consonance, based on integer ratios, lacked substantiation. Recent empirical evidence has bolstered Cazden’s perspective, indicating that the perception of consonance is primarily shaped by culture rather than by a…
"Richard Parncutt's "Psychoacoustic foundations of major-minor tonality”
No abstract available
Smelling x as y? On (the impossibility of) multistable perception in the chemical senses
Multistable percepts are intriguing phenomena whereby an ambiguous sensory input can be perceived in one of several qualitatively different ways. In such cases, people can switch their attention to perceive the stimulus in either way, though they typically cannot maintain both interpretations in awareness simultaneously. The abundance of evidence demonstrating multistable perception in the visual and auditory modalities can be contrasted with the…
What role does temporal synchrony play in mid-level audiovisual crossmodal correspondences
Temporal synchrony is widely recognized as one of the key factors facilitating the emergence of crossmodal correspondences and affecting their crossmodal effects. However, several issues regarding the definition of temporal synchrony and the mechanisms underlying its crossmodal effects remain open, depending on the specific experimental/perceptual context/stimuli used, as well as the influence of crossmodal congruency and structural (including is…
Auditory-conceptual associations in Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the Animals
This study investigated auditory-conceptual associations in children using complex audiovisual stimuli, namely musical excerpts from the Western classical repertoire and drawings. In Experiment 1, we examined whether 6- to 9-year old children were able to consistently match musical excerpts from Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with corresponding black-and-white images of the characters. The results confirmed robust associations, particularly for t…
Affordance-based accounts of the ethics of artefacts and their application to neuroenhancement technologies
Over the recent decade, various approaches have been suggested to reflect on the ethics of technologies for human augmentation. Some researchers focused on the impact of these technologies on individuals, delving into aspects such as psychological and bodily identity, responsibility, and autonomy. Others took a social stance, emphasizing the potential effects of widespread augmentation devices on fundamental moral principles like social justice a…
On sensory similarities
Similarity has been a central concern for millennia, drawing the attention of philosophers, scientists, and artists. The issue of similarity is especially intriguing in the domain of the senses (and of sensory perception), where considerable research effort has been devoted to describing the affinities and divergences between different sensory modalities. In this work, we critically review the multiple different ways in which 'sensory similarity'…
Psychology (11 works) · Perception (9 works) · Cognitive science (8 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)